Druid forms were and still are quite different.
With a spriest you get a nice buff.
if you wanted to feral dps you NEEDED to go kitty. And those forms needed an update :P
Especially since worgen and trolls were coming

Hahaha, "NEEDED to go kitty".
It's not like shadow priests have any choise you know?

There was a place in old Orgrimmar where you could stand and be in a total shadow. I remember being wowed at how Shadowform would look totally awesome with this graphic instead. I took some screenshots of it back then so you can check it out:

Minor glyphs to change the the colour effect of it or turn it off imo, I raid my butt off for the gear I'm in, sucks I don't get to look at it in combat.

There have been a few larger changes to classic shadowpriest effects some good some bad 2 eg;
The change to the sound of entering shadowform really P.O me,
The update to mindflay was needed, although I preferred the beta version

I agree 100%, I am totally over my shadowform that makes all my gear look the same. if they can't update our shadowform the LEAST they can do is make an option to toggle it on or off. why MUST we be stuck with the most OBVIOUS buff in the game, we should be allowed to be discreet if we want....

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and by toggle it on or off i meant the APPEARANCE, while keeping the buff.

I think Feral druids/boomkins are more obvious than Shadow. Just saying.